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We've been working on a new tuff tray pack for you - the Maths Magicians Tower! 🔮

https://tpet.co.uk/downloads/maths-magician-tuff-tray-activity-pack

This is super easy to create using cubes or even lego! It also looks great with added props such as a wizard plush or a ...magic wand!

Part of our Better with @eduzoneltd - you can also get your own tuff tray with an exclusive discount. Visit our site for details.

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Our Supertatoes are very apeeling wouldn’t you agree? 🤦🏻‍♀️😆🥔 #supertato #tufftraytuesday #tuffytuesdays
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The final tuff tray for this weeks #TuffyTuesdays is this fish exploration tray by @concepteducationtdn 🐠 🐟

We love this tray that targets fine motor, early phonics, understanding the world, number, communication and language development. Lots of fun to be had in this tray! ⭐
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Share us your tuff tray pictures using the hashtag #TuffyTuesdays for your chance to be featured in future weeks! Don’t have a tuff tray? Get 10% off with our friends at @eduzoneltd just use the code: BETTER10 at the checkout to redeem!

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Next up for week 5 of #TuffyTuesdays is this really simple but effective bug box tuff tray by @tufftraydays 🐜 🐞

A great counting and sorting activity that is quick to set up with little props, a brilliant maths activity! 💛

Share us your tuff tray pictures using the ...hashtag #TuffyTuesdays for your chance to be featured in future weeks! Don’t have a tuff tray? Get 10% off with our friends at @eduzoneltd just use the code: BETTER10 at the checkout to redeem!

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Our first tuff tray for week 5 of #TuffyTuesdays is this brilliant STEM Balloon Cup Shooters by @littletufftrayideas 🎈

This tuff tray is great for exploring lots of things, including force, distance, speed, estimation and comparisons. A really simple but exciting tuff tray activity! ...💛

Share us your tuff tray pictures using the hashtag #TuffyTuesdays for your chance to be featured in future weeks! Don’t have a tuff tray? Get 10% off with our friends at @eduzoneltd just use the code: BETTER10 at the checkout to redeem!

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It's Tuff Tray Tuesday!

We use our tuff trays in many various ways such as; role play, small world, sensory, mark making, dying rice and scooping, filling and pouring

Check out these fabulous tuff tray ideas from our Grasshopper's class.

#TuffyTuesdays with ...tpetuk

Do you have a tuff tray?
How do you use yours?

For your child to join in the fun, please contact: natalie@ideaelc.ae or call 8004332352

Check out our website www.ideaelc.ae

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Sunshine ☀️ 💕 #tuffytuesdays #tufftrayideas #tufftray #toddlerlife #toddlersofinstagram

Every one needs to experience a teddy bears’ picnic at some point , right ? 🧸 🧺 🥪🍇🍓🍰☕️🫖

This is always my go to type of activity where I just put everything out on a tray that is already altogether in a box or her play kitchen .

We even watched and ...sang along to the Teddy Bears picnic song 🎶 🎵 which took me back a few years .

👧🏼🏡🌲🧸🧸🧸We then adapted it by adding in porridge and my daughter pretended she was Goldilocks .

What is your go to activity for the tuff tray when you need something quick and easy ?

#tufftrayideas #tufftray #tufftrayplay #teddybearspicnic #easygoto #goldilocksandthethreebears #tuffytuesdays

❄️🧊🐻‍❄️Arctic Tuff tray 🐻‍❄️🧊❄️💙 or 🧊 ⛸ Arctic Peppa skating rink adventure

This was so popular with my two kids , so much so they wanted it for days .

I was so lucky with the weather on this one .

❄️ I just left the tray on ...our outdoor dining set overnight filled with water and white paint and gave it a swirl around before I left it
❄️ Then left it overnight to freeze , it was as simple as that (weather dependent obviously -Baltic English weather definitely a bonus 😂👌🏻) .
❄️In the morning I added blocks of ice I found in buckets and toys around the garden to make the ice bergs -this wasn’t planned but worked perfectly .
❄️ And we added our Peppa pig winter characters which we set in muffin trays in the freezer overnight or our polar animals

#tufftrayideas #tufftray #tufftrayplay #tufftrayactivities #tufftrayinspiration -#arctictufftray #polarexploration #peppapigiceskating #iceskatingtufftray #tuffytuesdays

✋🏻👌🏻👆🏻Fine Motor Skills 👌🏻👆🏻✋🏻

Fine motor skills are so important as they involve and strengthen the muscles that control the hand, fingers, and thumb. This can help children in so many ways - with their writing , drawing , and with daily tasks like ...zipping up coats etc

I put a range of fine motor Skill activities out for them to experiment with and I watched them to see how well they did and which they enjoyed the most . We will develop each activity over the weekend and play with one at a time to develop each type of muscle movement -pinching , tweezing , squeezing , pulling , pushing .

The activities i have put out involve :
⭐️Threading buttons and stacking buttons
⭐️Threading pipe cleaners through a colander
⭐️Lacing and threading beads on to the hedgehog
⭐️Lacing fruit and vegetables , numbers , letters and animals onto string
⭐️Using tweezers to place Pom pom in an ice cube tray - I will also add the wooden lacing balls for my daughter so it gives her more of a challenge
⭐️Using a pipette to add droplets of coloured water to support blocks
#tufftrayinspiration #tufftrayideas #tufftrayplay #finemotorskills #finemotoractivity #threadingandlacing #tuffytuesdays

😎that Friday feeling😎
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Have a good weekend everyone
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